LUTON History and Nostalgia
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Dave how did it cope with the "Braniff" Concordes, or did they maintain their UK i/ds in the database? 
Saggitair?
I used to do that in a Beech 18 from LHR about the same time
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Anyone have a suggestion as to why I can't see the images for this thread when viewed on my IPad, yet I can see them on a PC?
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The Americans over for crew training the Court Line crews on the 1011s were entertaining. A touch and go was called a 'crash and a dash'.
On one occasion, one such crash and a dash ended with all the reversers coming on passing the fire station (on 26). My finger hovered near the crash alarm but the aircraft stopped in the 08 turning circle. My enquiry "Are you all right?" elicited the response <American, laughing> "He touched the brakes, we hadda stop".
They all stayed in the Esso Motel (as was) and were ordering hamburgers all hours of the day and night, allegedly.
On one occasion, one such crash and a dash ended with all the reversers coming on passing the fire station (on 26). My finger hovered near the crash alarm but the aircraft stopped in the 08 turning circle. My enquiry "Are you all right?" elicited the response <American, laughing> "He touched the brakes, we hadda stop".
They all stayed in the Esso Motel (as was) and were ordering hamburgers all hours of the day and night, allegedly.
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The Americans over for crew training the Court Line crews on the 1011s were entertaining. A touch and go was called a 'crash and a dash'.
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A British Pathe news clip of the worlds highest plane but what is that jet in the foreground?
World's Highest Plane - British Pathé
World's Highest Plane - British Pathé
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I always have fun with my Aviation friends by asking them 'which was the only six engined British jet?'. It was, of course, the Ashton, which at one point had another outboard engine on each wing. It can be seen in this guise in the film 'Cone of Silence'. I believe that the cockpit section of this aircraft is in Newark Museum???.
I always have fun with my Aviation friends by asking them 'which was the only six engined British jet?'. It was, of course, the Ashton, which at one point had another outboard engine on each wing. It can be seen in this guise in the film 'Cone of Silence'. I believe that the cockpit section of this aircraft is in Newark Museum???.
Newark's Ashton is the forward fuselage of the one (Ashton Mk.2 WB491) that had a fuselage-mounted ventral test pod used, at various times, for testing the Sapphire, Avon and Conway.
It was Ashton Mk.3 WB493 (no longer extant) that was used for the Olympus/Orpheus trials:
